Earlier this month, the White House announced a Clean Energy Investment Initiative in an effort to spur $2 billion in private sector investments aimed at addressing climate change and reductions in carbon pollution.

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the primary term of an oil and gas lease would not be equitably tolled during the pendency of a landowner’s declaratory judgment action challenging the lease’s validity.

On February 19, 2014, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NOPR") proposing the sale of primary frequency response service at market-based rates by sellers with market-based rate authority for energy and capacity.

The explosion of natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin in recent years has led to litigation involving landowners trying to get out of existing oil and gas leases to take advantage of the fierce competition among production companies.

In SWEPI, LP v. Mora County, New Mexico, the district court struck down a county ordinance prohibiting the extraction of oil and gas, a decision that has generally been hailed as a victory for industry.

Overriding royalty interests, com¬monly referred to as ORRIs, have been used for decades by oil and gas exploration and production compa¬nies as mechanisms for obtaining funding, particularly in situations where more traditional methods, such as bank loans, are not available on attractive terms.

In SWEPI, LP v. Mora County, New Mexico, the district court struck down a county ordinance prohibiting the extraction of oil and gas, a decision that has generally been hailed as a victory for industry.

On February 19, 2014, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NOPR") proposing the sale of primary frequency response service at market-based rates by sellers with market-based rate authority for energy and capacity.

The explosion of natural gas production in the Appalachian Basin in recent years has led to litigation involving landowners trying to get out of existing oil and gas leases to take advantage of the fierce competition among production companies.

A question which often arises in the litigation of power supply contracts is whether the transaction is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"). Article 2 of the UCC applies to "transactions in goods." UCC § 2-102. A "good" is defined as "all things . . . which are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale . . . ." UCC § 2-105. For those involved in the generation and transmission of electricity, this may appear to be a fairly

Overriding royalty interests, com¬monly referred to as ORRIs, have been used for decades by oil and gas exploration and production compa¬nies as mechanisms for obtaining funding, particularly in situations where more traditional methods, such as bank loans, are not available on attractive terms.